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TO AID AMERICANS IN CUBA; Cabinet Meeting to Discuss the Advisability of Asking Congress to Provide Immediate Relief. MEANS OF SENDING HELP Encouragement from the Spanish Minister -- The Scheme Likely to Meet with Opposition in the Senate -- Some Pertinent Difficulties in Administering Succor.

WASHINGTON, May 14. -- The meeting of the Cabinet to-day was devoted almost entirely to the consideration of the Cuban situation. The meeting occurred an hour earlier than usual, owing to the importance of the question to be discussed and the fact that the President and the Cabinet were to leave for Philadelphia at 12:45.

May 15, 1897

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